Frederick Lenz Quotes About Nothingness

• None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Acceptance, Self

• Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Hallucinations, Illusion

• This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Clever, Buddhism, Simple

• There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Empty, Buddha Nature

• We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Ideas, Mind

• What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the dimension according to our self-reflection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Self, Dimensions

• Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Believe, Forever

• None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Ignorance, Shadow

• You're a part of me. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of this great nothingness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nothingness

• Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Type, Nothingness

• When you stop all thought, the battle is won. Everything is still and peaceful. You will come to see the eternal voidness of all things. You will see that nothing is, really.

  Frederick Lenz

  Peaceful, Battle, Samadhi

• Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

  Frederick Lenz

  Space, Perspective, Division

• Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perception, Mind, Action

• None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Decision, Important

• You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fighting, Creating, Ideas

• Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Said, Happens

• There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

  Frederick Lenz

  Home, Self, Addresses

• So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.

  Frederick Lenz

  Team, Enlightenment, World

• The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cities, Sea, People

• All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Space, Doe

• The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Contemplation, Introduction

• When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Baggage, Claims, Existence

• We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We give ground to reality by creating it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Creating, Giving

• Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, World

• We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Made, Nothingness

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